Sacrifice

Things to Get Rid of In My Life:
-hair length (check...)
-junk food
-sugar
-clothes I don't wear anymore
-all those papers I just didn't want to throw away
-bad habits
-fears (I've got plenty to spare)
-negativity
-clutter

End of August

Recurring Themes for July:
-Ninjas
-Mono
-Cleaning
-Bangs
-Weddings
-Heat

Things to Cook:
-Baked Oatmeal
-Bran muffins
-Chop Suey
-Bread of some kind
-Beef gyudon
-Lemon icebox cake

Glandular Fever

Good Things About Having Mono:
-good excuse to sleep in all day long
-good excuse to get out of doing things I don't want to ("I can't... I don't have the energy... I have mono...")
-good excuse not to share any of my food
-it's almost like a rite of passage for college girls
-people assume I have a better dating life than I really do
-I can play the sick card for a very long time (one of my sisters had the fatigue from mono for three months, so I have two months to use mono as an excuse for things)
-I got to take steroids and make all the jokes I wanted about it
-I got to eat ice cream as a mainstay of my diet for two weeks, and no one thought a thing of it
-I finally have some good sick stories again (it's been a year and a half since my last real illness, and the stories from that one are embarrassing)
-LOTS of tv and movies
-the delirium that accompanied a week of fevers

The Bad Things About Having Mono:
-being sick isn't actually fun
-running a constant low grade fever, and daily high fevers, for over a week
-super swollen tonsils (and glands)
-not being able to swallow anything (sometimes even ice cream was too difficult)
-not being able to eat solid foods for at least a week
-getting dehydrated on a regular basis, in part because of above complaints
-not being able to move around freely
-not having the mental ability to do much more than watch tv and movies
-no energy
-the mono jokes get old!
-actually being sick for at least a month
-having to take steroids (I am currently unsure whether steroids were developed as medicine or as a torture device)
-not being able to share food
-not understanding what is reality and what is fiction for a rather long period of time
-the constant struggle between fatigue

Code Names

Some of My Favorite (Secret) Nicknames For Other People:
-Boone (Boonation)
-Tree Boy
-The Mexican
-Christophe
-La Moustache
-The Pirate
-Juan
-Locke
-Blonde Nate Sharp (not so much of a secret)
-The British Officer
-Bobby Clearwater (not actually a secret at all)